New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-06
SUPPLEMENT-.
PAGES 9 TO IL.
PATRIOTISM AND HYSTERIA.
ANTICS OF NINE. ADAM, PAUL DEROULEDE
AND THEIR ANTl-GERMAN LEAGUE.


AND THEIR ANTl-GERMAN LEAGUE.
rrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TRIBUNE.J
PARIS, Ft bruary 1S.
That vain donkey, Paul Deroulede and the still
vaiuer old blue stoc king OF la Nouvelle Revue"
.houid be proud of their work. She shrieked ont
on the housetops last summer that she had proofs
that bismarck compassed the assassinatOns of
Generals Skobeleff and Chanzy and got them
affected /; whereas Chanzy died of an acute attack
of Brights disease and Skobeleff was knocked
nm the head In drunken bra vi in q house at Mos
COW dedicated to the merceuary Venus. The acca-
sa.on against Prince Bismarck, who is. when he
thinks himself ill-ussd the most rancorous of men,
was al, en- to the world in pamphlet printed in
Goa TYNE on thick paper with wide margins Means
.e,e taken to get it widely puded. All this would
ot have mattered if the author had not induced
,he then Foreign Munster. VI. de Freycnet to come
nd dine with her. Tue fact got round to the
csrmay Embassy. AS Prince Bismarck was above
entering the lists With woman OF his fair
,aversarv's curious antecedents, OF which he bad,
MAN well.iuformed by Herr Beckmann. of the Ger
- E,,bas,v who knew all about them. and from
a. .econd hand source e,thcr,-he simply decided
:. ,-sot NJ. de Freycinet "a tho whipping-boy. The
Forscn Minister was not in terms informed or
,be diffioaltes the Chancellor tegan suddenly to
- IN b;s wav. but hs gas made to feel why the
Hence the last resignation Of NJ dc Freycinet on
Ill. rr.tevt As TO NJ Dsroulede, he went under
The ausn,ces of La Nouves Revue" to make last
wiring a tour in Italy, Hungary, Turkey and
p,s;a Katkoff and the Jews who form the inner
,;-o,. If the PanSlav party naturally mace a fuss
,bout him ana he made a greater fuss about
himself.
As the Russian and French Ambassadors at Con-
stantinople pulled the same rope with some diplo-
matte success when the Bulgarian, Greek and
Egyptian questions we're on. Prince Bismarck
Thought it wei, to keep his eye open to what was
coinc on in Paris. and between the Government
there and the one at ST. Petersburg. What did he
see The Car letting drop his attempt to " boy
colt the Republic, and Grand Dukes going round
the French navy Yards arsenals aud camps under
the guidance of naval and artillery officers. A
Grand Duke came If on leave of absence from
frgate to which he belongs TO stay for three or four
days in the Continental, and then disappeared as
if he had gone back to hi ship But he had merely
sh,fted his quarters to tile Rue de la Bottle where
he still is on third 6oor lie had there conferences
with French and Russian naval officers in which
q Russian Admiral VINO has been visiting all the
great harbors of the British colonies took part. IT,
L H. has been often, since he came to the Rue de la
Bottle incog 10 English ports, and before he came
here he mluutely examined. along with more ex-
perienced officers than he himself can boast OF
being the Baltic harbors of the German Empire and
the month of the Elbe This noteworthy. to
say the least
The 1ongs on of NJ. Deroulede are treated as very
serious in Germany and particularly in the annexed
provinces Any one who is there suspected of
being affiliated with tue League of Patriots is ex-
posed to nothing SHORT of persecntion. There are
in all THIRTY persons in gao the charge of having
MD n a
a young man who has just returned from passing
wear in military service. He was SUSPECTED of
being with the French aud when n search was
male in his books a members card of the League
of Patriots was discovered in one of them. which
hammered to be a patriotic novel by Erckmann
Chatrian The Procurator-General to the Supreme
Tribunal of Dresien the head OF the Berlin police,
aud some other distinguished limbs of German law
have been sent into Alaace to, get up a case
of high treason against the aiIese 20 me me
that there is good deal IN All tn,S wnicu Is
intended to put the fear of the German Empire INTO
the heats Of the for an the Rech
tag III So pity Prince Bismarck for oelng so
much behind what is best 10 TINS age. VI course
lie wants to get a largo majority returned 10 tue
Imperial Parliament, for he looks forward TO the
approaching comm Dcemeot oil new reign an
does not want to havea ReichstaR winch wou' i
rather side with the next empress, who Is Liocral
than with him. \ gOod deal of his present uolsy
policy is due to h. anxiety on this score but not
all. Russia is An anvil the French army unuer
Bouanger is a very haid hammer and the German
Empire IS beta cen both.
The League of Patriots was founded IN 1888,
shortly after Gambetta died. often suspected that
there was IN the heads O. some OF the Iounners
hidden design to convert il. when ever 1t might re
in good working vr,ier, into 40 Oreanl't orsailAa-
ton. good many artists whose specIaty IL 10 TO
paint military pictures joined II. GOnnod az tne
composer of Joan d. Are" and Galiia naturally
was enrolled So we're Mas.enet, the composer OF
Inc sprstrrng" erodad the ven ana
who was an enthusiastic devotee of the Maid OF
Orleans anu Deputy Fare. who wrote 2 NE OF
that heroine Goap the ''sL're es.rs: of the
Academy was born at Metz. aud NJ. !urkuet the
head of the Fine Arts Department. was in sklrmsh
with the Prussians. Another early mein Der was
H. Anatole de la Forge. Deputy for Paris. He took
part in TIE defence of ST. Quentin. as was shown
by NJ de Neuvss painting Of TIE hest stree. asm n.
gagged Put this gentleman withdrew from the
league shortly after Deronlede got iutO row With
Germsn musical club Thcn no e.pe roS in IRON ths
Passage des Panoramas BECAUSE they had been de-
nouncrd to him guilty Of singing with open WIN
dows The Watch on the Rhine
This Deroulede is very. tall. very dark, aad has
strong Roman profile singulariy IKE tnat OF the
vainest Frenchman in ex stence. HIS mother Us
sister of NJ. Emile Angler. the dramatic author;
and postures az a Corneiia. She accompanied all
her three sons In 1870 to the enlistment office
where they were enrolled as volunteer privates.
Paul. the patriotic League man. went through mucn
hardship and danger as p soldier and when piping
DAYS Of peace returned r 'te volume Of military
songs which 10 the n ost popular book in France.
save La Fontaines Fables. As the League was to
pro pagate patriotism by books, ballads, lectures
Qymna sium societies and shooting Matches dare
saw he got It up to help forward tue sale Of the
SolhiersF Song Book. There are altogether 600
snits TO belong TO the League. They appear at
every great funeral with their pupils smartly
G,s.s-d IN flannel uniforms There MAS quite an
sr,nv Of them At Victor HuRo's. Tho Minister OF
War sranis the Patriots subventons for their
shooting matches. which take place under tho
r;wp Chamnagne lunches are given ut them and
the nr,zss are sometimes val liable Elegant y
dressed ladies who are not always OF immaculate .
snnnose. could not we'll get on without Venus
The m,nimum subscription of member to this
League is one franz; hut there is no maximum;
Cool Patriots are expected TO take Le DraPeaI